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Buckle. No 239,520. l 7 Patented March 29,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM F. MANN, OF MOUNT PLEASANT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO JOHN DELO,

JR, OF SAME PLACE.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 239,520, dated March 29, 1881.

Application filed August 10, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WM. F. MANN, of Mount Pleasant, in the county of Isabella and State of Michigan, have invented a certain new, useful, and Improved Buckle, and I do hereby declare the same to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of the buckle. Figs. 2 and 3 are perspectiveviews, showing, respect ively, the top and bottom of the buckle. Fig. 4 is a sectional edge view of the buckle applied to a bag, and Fig. 5 a cross-section of the buckle.

My invention relates to an improved form of buckle designed to be used, in connection with a strap, for fastening the mouth of a bag, or other purpose; and it consists in the peculiar structure hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings,A represents the buckle, which is formed with a rectangular outline, and with its general plane curved to conform to the contracted circumference of the bag-neck or other curved surface. It is also formed with side flanges, a a, an opening, G, and a curved stud, B. At one end of the buckle, and between the side flanges, is riveted the strap E, which is made tapering, and is of harnessleather, about equal in thickness to the depth of the flanges a, so as to fill up the recess between them. This strap E is fastened by a rivet which passes through the hole 0 and through a single thickness of the strap, the strap being prevented from swiveling or turnin g on the rivetby the side flanges, a a. When the buckle is to be used as'a bag-tie, as in Fig. 4, the same rivet d also connects thebuckle to the bag (J, so that they can never be separated.

In fastening the neck of the bag or other object, the tapered end of the strap, after being passed around the contracted neck, is entered between the flanges an, at the other end of the buckle, and is then pushed up through the hole G, and one of the holes in the strap is then hooked over the curved studB, in which position the strap holds the neck of the bag closed.

In manufacturing my fastening the buckle is cast, or struck up cheaply, of a single piece of metal.

In defining my invention more clearly, I would state that I am aware of the patent to Bartlett, July 28, 1874., in which a buckle constructed of a piece of bent wire is made to hold a strap in a manner somewhat similar to mine. I therefore only claim the buckle when formed with a curved surface and side flanges, a, central hole, and a curved stud, and combined with a strap by a rivet which, with the flanges, holds the strap in place.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is The buckle A, having curved surface, side flanges, a a, hole G, and stud B, adapted to receive the strap, substantially as described.

WILLIAM FRANK MANN. 

